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Q&A: Liberal leadership front-runner Sandra Pupatello on traffic, the TTC and marrying a Newfoundlander
Sandra Pupatello was McGuinty’s pit bull for eight years before decamping to the private sector. Now she’s back, gunning for...
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50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Premier Dalton McGuinty steps down and adjourns the legislature
We’ve never really thought of Dalton McGuinty as a big-surprises kind of guy, but Premier Dad shocked the province last night by...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Lilly’s Lunches, a new bike-based brown bag delivery service
Lilly’s Lunches is a new one-woman and one-bike operation run entirely by Elizabeth Callahan. After growing weary with her day...
City News
Rob Ford’s re-election campaign seems to be off to a good start, continuing the imaginary fight for subways
The Globe and Mail says the conflicting messages from Dalton McGuinty and Rob Ford on the transit file are enough to make the two...
City News
Tim Hudak keeps giving Liberals more ways to paint him as a Harris-era Tory
The provincial election in October has an oddly retro feel to it: Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak seems inclined to bash...
City News
Why doesn’t Rob Ford hit up his Conservative pals in Ottawa for the Sheppard subway cash?
The mayor has a big problem: the Sheppard subway extension that he’s promised to build increasingly appears to make no financial...
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Provincial Liberals blame Rob Ford for GTA transit woes; we admire the province’s chutzpah
As they gear up for the October election, the provincial Liberals have devised a simple plan: reduce their vulnerability to...
Food & Drink
Queen’s Park takes a cue from Ottawa, demurs on fast-food calorie labels
We’ve mentioned from time to time the Canadian government’s curious efforts to keep us all eating plenty of salt. A weekend...
Food & Drink
MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
City News
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam manages to save Afrofest at Queen’s Park, at least for this year
Last week, it looked like Afrofest and Freedom Festival were both going to get kicked out of Queen’s Park for serial noise and...
City News
Toronto Transit Commission workers’ union properly reads the mood of the city for once: no strikes during contract negotiations, says leader Bob Kinnear
TTC union chief Bob Kinnear made a speech yesterday that demonstrated a quality we haven’t seen from the union since the last...
City News
Ready for rate rage? Soon, there will be even more changes to time-of-use hydro charges
Back when the Ontario government introduced time-of-use billing to hydro, it had two simple purposes: to reflect the higher costs...
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Rob Ford plagued by drive-by smears again
It’s hard out here for a front-runner: Rob Ford , having swatted down anonymous Web ads two weeks ago that referred to him as...
City News
Like magic, TTC and Queen’s Park find some common ground on Presto
One of the most bizarrely acrimonious fights in the city over the past few months has been not over who pays for transit, or how...
City News
Ontario announces inquiry into G20 fence law that is totally not related to the G20
When is an inquiry into the G20 not really an inquiry into the G20? When the province announces it’s going to appoint a...
City News
Premier to Toronto’s mayoral hopefuls: Transit City is happening, so deal with it
Despite the magical mystery plans offered by the city's mayoral hopefuls, changes to any program as expensive as public transit...
City News
Total Recall: Rocco Rossi wants Torontonians to be able to sack their councillors by petition
We'll be the first to acknowledge that election campaigns are fun. There's shouting, polls, shouting, the occasional policy...
City News
Will the latest cabinet shuffle at Queen’s Park be good news for Toronto? Probably not
The chairs at Dalton McGuinty 's big cabinet table were rearranged slightly yesterday, as he brought in two new men and moved some...
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Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
City News
Ottawa throws Toronto a bone by upping businesses’ compensation for the G20
Downtown businesses ravaged during the G20 have been griping for a while now about how much money they lost on that fateful...
City News
MMA is a-okay: Ontario to allow mixed martial arts after all
It's amazing what a black hole where your budget used to be can do: after moving to legalize online gambling, Queen's Park has...
City News
Casa Loma may get new management—but who should be new king of the castle?
One of the fights brewing this summer has nothing to do with the mayoral race (so far). Instead, this is a fight between David...
City News
All five leading mayoral candidates finally agree on one thing: no party politics in city council
Last week we noted that city council is going to have a decidedly less morgue-like Wall Street Journal since there are 11 open...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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